Published 3 January 2021, Last updated 11 January 2021

Politics became violent, one cannot say that it is logically and constructively discussed.

Particularly, after social media caused the chaos and the social negatives.

In January 2020, Twitter decided to permanently suspend the account of US President Donald Trump. According to their website, “the risk of further incitement of violence”[1] was mentioned as a reason in the context of the violent storming on 6th the same month at the US Capitol[2].

As for social media, people have been focusing too much on the present without having a wider view on our history while not remembering even what had happened a while ago.

In the earlier stage of the Internet or when Joi Ito published a paper Emergent Democracy[3] in 2004, some people were having expectations on the Internet which might encourage the development of democracy. The paper mentions the possibility of the Internet as well as the potential negative outcomes from it.

[1] Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html Accessed 9 January 2021.

[2] America shaken after pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYzsukyYgC4 Accessed 9 January 2021.

[3] Joi Ito. Emergent Democracy. Edited by Jon Lebkowsky. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.06953.pdf. Accessed 10 January 2021.